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[LuvOrlando]

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[ericamanda01]

I was in a coffee shop sitting by myself reading when I couldn't help but overhear a conversation at the table behind me. I guess because I had my back to them they thought I couldn't hear them as well. Anyway it was a girl and a guy and she kept saying she was sorry she cheated on him, but that their relationship wasn't right for her. All he wanted was the guys name. She kept saying that wasn't important. But he kept asking, so finally she said, "Fine if you really have to know it was Amy!" All of a sudden the guy said, "My sister!!!" It took everything I had not to turn around.

 

[Green Tea]

Sitting in a restaurant with my DH, the couple at the next table were having a pretty heavy conversation about their marriage. Didn't sound like things were going so well. One of the areas my DH oversees is HR, and yep, they were employees at his company. Many comments in the conversation about names of others that work at the same place. If you want to have a conversation like that in a restaurant, take it out of town!

 

[aprilgail2]

I was in a coffee shop sitting by myself reading when I couldn't help but overhear a conversation at the table behind me. I guess because I had my back to them they thought I couldn't hear them as well. Anyway it was a girl and a guy and she kept saying she was sorry she cheated on him, but that their relationship wasn't right for her. All he wanted was the guys name. She kept saying that wasn't important. But he kept asking, so finally she said, "Fine if you really have to know it was Amy!" All of a sudden the guy said, "My sister!!!" It took everything I had not to turn around.

LOL- I had friends that used to do that all the time to see if they could get a rise out of the people sitting by them- they would talk about stuff like that or other crazy stuff to see if they could get the person in the booth behind them to turn around!

My baby monitor used to pick up cordless phones and one time it picked up the family across the streets teenage daughter on the phone with her boyfriend talking about all the places they have had sex together and where they want to try etc (they were 15)....I would change the frequency on the baby monitor but then it picked up another neighbors cordless phone!! Finally had enough and didn't use the monitor anymore LOL!

 

[Boston Tea Party]

Sitting in a restaurant with my DH, the couple at the next table were having a pretty heavy conversation about their marriage. Didn't sound like things were going so well. One of the areas my DH oversees is HR, and yep, they were employees at his company. Many comments in the conversation about names of others that work at the same place. If you want to have a conversation like that in a restaurant, take it out of town!

Thanks for confirming what I have always thought. When we are in public talking about work matters DH and I use code names for people in the office. You just never know who might know enough to figure who you are...

 

[laurie31]

Wow, LuvOrlando, your stories are horrible! Especially the 911 thing!

Mine is uncomfortable in a gross way, rather than a presonal way. Although, it's one of those WAY TMI kind of things.

I was in an elevator, so I had no escape. I was already on the elevator when it stopped and a group of guys got in. Their conversation was already in progress. I'm sorry, but you have to have the visual - this man is wearning jeans, dirty white t-shirt with a box of cigarettes rolled up in one sleeve, and generally looks like he was out working in the garage. Which maybe he was...but anyway, he's telling his friends about his day. The subject is scary - the phone call no parent wants to get - but his description of it went as follows: "I was sittin' on the crapper...doing my thang...when the phone rang and then all of a sudden I just heard her (his wife) scream, you know, like this terrible scream. So I just...you know...pinched it off, and went runnin' down the hall with my pants around my ankles, to see what happened."

Now I have TRULY disturbing visual of this guy!

Honestly, couldn't he have just said he was in the bathroom?

I don't know what he said after that, because the elevator doors opened and I fled, even though it wasn't my floor!

 

[C.Ann]

Don't sit around the campfires up here.. You'll hear lots and lots of things you would rather not.. At times there are such large groups of people from up and down the road - friends of friends - etc. - there's bound to be stuff you would rather not hear.. Those campfires take place at other neighbors places - kind of a "community" thing.. I "try" to keep the campfires at my place just immediate family and friends that I know aren't going to get drunk and go haywire..

The worst is when a husband and wife are going at each other - hurling insults left and right - spewing out things that should definitely be kept private.. That's when I suddenly decide it's time for me to "call it a night" and I get up and go "home" (here)..

 

[HighClass]

When I was a teen I overheard
my Mother and her sister discuss why their younger brother was sent away aroung age 18-10 to live out of state

-he had gotten into trouble that made me finally figure out why he made me uncomfortable.
(hugs too tight, kisses too strong-blech)

I then stayed FAR FAR away from him when he visited.

 

[Serena]

I've heard a few of one sided conversations that always upset me. Usually a parent berating their child, loudly, hurtfully. It takes everything in me not to say something.

One really uncomfortable and "interesting" conversations I overheard one night when I was trying to sleep. I was in an apartment in Georgia, the apartment next door had the bedroom right next to mine with paper thin walls. He was trying to convince her of something she had never done before. I turned the tv on very loud.

 

[Bluestars]

Mine happened about 10 years ago. We went to a condo near a lake and turned on an old scanner. This scanner picked up phone conversations too.

While flipping through the channels, we stopped at one and heard a terrified girl's voice. She was telling someone she had been kidnapped and just escaped. There was such fear in her voice that it still gives me the chills. I wish I could have helped her, but all I could do was listen in shock.

 

[paintnolish]

How scary and sad some of these are. As a server, I overhear or happen upon all sorts of conversations. The worst ones are when someone is crying...refill their drinks or wait until the tears stop? Awkward! I hear really funny stuff, though...my fave and most random was, "And that's why I would only get a female donkey!" OOOOkay. I can't image what preceeded that!

 

[dalt01]

I am curious if anyone else has ever been caught in a bad spot and forced to listen to a very unpleasant conversation? This has happened to me a few times and since I do not like to eavesdrop it bothered me every time.

I'll go first.
Friday I had just picked my DS up from school because of his Asthma, which has been a problem the past 2 weeks. I stopped to get gas. While I'm standing there I hear the lady next to me saying on the cell:
"I'm trying to stay positive but it's hard. I just got back and the Dr. said it has spread to the Uterus - pause - No, he said he can see it in the blood work - pause- ... cancer ...
This was sobering.

Last year I overheard the Principal speaking to the Receptionist about a Mother who was trying to get access to her DD but that the Dad has a POA against the Mom for the kid. I tried to step out of the office quickly but I overheard the kids unusual name, and its my DD's best friend's cousin.
I never spoke about it out loud to anyone- its tragic

A few years ago my phone was piggy backed with someone elses phone. When this person would call 911 my phone conversation would either drop off or my phone would ring. I could hear the person calling for help , it was plainly domestic violence call - she couldn't hear me and 911 dispatch could only hear me, and my phone number went out to dispatch. I tried everything to get this person help but the phone company could only see me and 911l Every time it happened I called the phone co but nothing worked. The police came a few times and luckily I had workmen over once as witnesses, another time I had family house sitting having some coffee, we weren't even home so that was documented too. Finally I had to write the phone company on some federal law and they replaced some stuff and it stopped.
This was deeply horrific to me

Another time I was outside my DD's preschool, also a Church, studying for an exam (post college stuff) and I heard people talking next to the van. I had pulled the seats out and was sitting flat on the floor of the van with my books spread out, the van was off and the back windows tinted. At first I didn't poke my head up because I thought they would go away. But then the conversation became more intimate. A woman seemed to be in some kind of Faith based counseling session and was patting herself on her back for 'doing the right thing' by sending her married whatever back to his wife and kids. She was going on and on. I would have liked to have ran out of there but by the time I realized what the conversation was about it was too late and there was no way to pull myself out of there without looking like I did it on purpose. Uggh, it went on for a very long time and it was awful. The guilt lasted a very long time.

you are not foolin me. you are a cast member on 90210 or desparate housewives arent you.

 

[Freyja]

I was once shopping at the Century 21 in NYC and the salesperson who was helping me was at the same time telling her co-worker personal details about her relationship and private life. Like about how happy she was that she had an abortion 6 months earlier since she had just started dating the guy then but that she was now ready to get pregnant again since they knew each so other so much better now. She then looked at me and said "you look like you understand me". Huh???

 

[Sparx]

i was a freshman in highschool. we were taking standardized testing, and i was in a room full of people i didn't know, because they grouped us alphabetically, not by class for the test.

i was sitting in the middle of the room, and i could hear two people behind me discussing osmething under their breath. then the male voice suddenly got louder and said, "I OWN MY OWN TRACTOR AND A DONKEY. WHY WON'T YOU GO OUT WITH ME?" the girl proceeds to say in an equally loud voice, "DON'T MAKE THIS ABOUT THE DONKEY. RACHEL HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY I WON'T GO OUT WITH YOU AND YOU KNOW IT."

i almost died.

 

[sorcerormickey]

We have overheard many fights betweens our ex-neighbors that I would really like to forget. We heard all about his affair and the ("bleeps") he would bring home while she worked. He would scream at her about how she takes better care of her children than her husband and how she needed to learn how to be a proper wife......I could go on and on and on.....They were so loud we could hear it in our house with our windows/doors closed, as well as theirs.

I am so glad they moved.

 

[powellrj]

Mine have been at the VA hospital at different times DS was a patient. I now understand medical privacy laws and why they need to be changed. There was no way I should have ever heard any of these conversations, but I also couldn't leave DS at the time so they could speak alone.

Once DS was roomed with a homeless man and they were trying to find him housing. It was hard because they were not only telling him he needed housing, they were also telling him they were going to amputate his foot.

Another time he was rooming with a man with cirrhosis of the liver and they basically told him he only had a few months to live and couldn't be put on the transplant list because he lived alone and was in such bad health.

DS was told that now all the rooms are private, I hope so because those are really private conversations nobody should hear if they aren't directly involved.

 

[C.Ann]

Oh - I just remembered one that was a real doozy..

A woman - screaming at her boyfriend at the top of her lungs - that he had given her...............well........."the gift that keeps on giving".. (If you know what I mean.. ) There were at least 10 of us that head that one..

 

[Minnie_me]

Sitting in the examining room at my OB/GYN, waiting for the dr to come in, I could very clearly hear the conversation in the next examining room. It was a mother and teenaged daughter arguing over whether or not she was going to continue the unplanned pregnancy.

 

[KSchwagg86]

I usually overhear teenage girls talking about all the guys they have sex with! Really just plain sad to hear...

 

[alexandria674]

I once was at my campus's pond. (We have a manmade small pond, very relaxing after a test) when I overheard this couple. The girl said she was getting rid of Pete. The guy was furious and told her that Pete is their best friend, he has always been there and has been around for years. The girl insisted on it because he is wrecking the house. The guy said he could make Pete stop it. How can she get rid of Pete when she comes home, Pete licks her face and nuzzles her.

I was thinking WHOA! Before I figured out Pete was a dog.

My house is really close to my cousin's boyfriends place. I hear everyone argueing at all hours of the night.